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Missed phone calls or delayed texting with Verizon Wi-Fi Calling
We’ve had several clients who complained that Wi-fi calling wasn’t working properly after we installed a Barracuda Cloudgen Firewall. I had tackled this issue on several occasions, but never was able to get a
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Find Public WAN IP Address of remote Unifi Device
Had a unique scenario where I needed to find the public WAN IP address of a remote Unifi Switch that was connected to our cloud controller. If you open up the debug terminal with the Unifi Controller and then type in
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Use Amazon Corretto for Unifi Controller instead of Oracle Java
So with Oracle starting to charge for commercial usage and updates of Java SE, I was looking for an alternative for our Unifi Controller. I ran across a comment in the Ubiquiti forums somewhere that said using Amazon
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Barracuda Firewall Command Line (SSH) Speed Test
Sometimes when you are trying to diagnose an internet speed or performance issue, it’s helpful to be able to run a speedtest from the router itself. We use Barracuda NextGen F Series Firewalls a lot, and the following
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Comcast Home Wireless Gateway Default Password ( TC8305C )
For years now I’ve always used the following username and password for Comcast modems. Username: cusadmin Password: highspeed Recently though it seems like some of the newer modems like the wireless gateway TC8305C use
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Quickbooks 2015 will NOT install on Windows XP
For all the folks out there still running Windows XP, you will be in for a surprise when you go to upgrade Quickbooks. Starting with Quickbooks 2015, you can not install it on Windows XP. I haven’t tried all the
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Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Invalid XML, the view cannot be loaded.
I had a customer call me to say that his computer seemed to freeze for him, so he did a hard restart on it. Once it booted back up, Microsoft Outlook 2010 would not start but give the following error message. Cannot
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Updates for Office are ready to be applied, but are blocked by one or more apps.
I have a customer who is getting the following error message in Office 2013. “Updates for Office are ready to be applied, but are blocked by one or more apps.” The problem is when the Update Now button is clicked, you
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